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will begin then to count from the beginning of Isarfa, and in the same 

 way you proceed through the other stations. 



Section V. Of the ( Romi) Roman year. 

 It begins with the first day of Teshreen ewd ; be it known that 

 the day of the week with which it begins precedes the day of the 

 week with which the following year is beginning ; for example, if the 

 first day of the year be Sunday, the first day of the next year will be 

 Monday. The fourth part of a day, (which is exceeding every year) 

 gives in four years the intercalar day. In this year the day of the week 

 of the next year is two days later, on Tuesday. It is also to be ob- 

 served that even in the Roman year the seasons must change in 

 the course of time, which the greatest part of men are unaware 

 of: so in the course of time the months of spring must become 

 those of Autumn: because according to the tables of Ooloozbey, there 

 are wanting to the fourth part of the day forming the intercalar, one 28 

 to the second, and 40 to the third. But as in the Roman years a fourth 

 part is counted, the above said deficiency makes in 123J years one day 

 to be added, the cause of it is that the fourth part of a day counted 

 each year is not exactly a fourth, but deficient ; which implies the 

 necessity of adding one day more to the above mentioned space of 

 years. For example, the Nawroozi Sultauni falling now on the 

 11th Adas, that is to say March, shall fall after the above mentioned 

 time on the 10th, then on the 9th, and make the four for some calen- 

 darian works. The day of Nawroozi Sultauni is found mentioned on 

 the 13th of Adas. This book has been translated in the year 1865 of 

 the Sileucian era; the difference since the establishment of that era 

 makes 14 days at the time of its introduction, the beginning of spring; 

 that is, the entrance of the sun in Aries was on the 26th of March ; but 

 as a long time has elapsed since people are in general not aware of 

 this era, Nasicreddin Toosi (the great astronomer) calls in his treaty 

 celebrated by its name Si (Thirty) the Roman year the veritable 

 one, but it is not so, ^a*a^. the veritable one is the year of constella- 

 tions commonly called the Djelatian year. It is a curious fact that 

 the great astronomers Mirza Ooloozbey, Mir Ghaiaseddin, Bjemsheed, 

 Hazizade Koomi and Molla AH Kooshdji (on whom be God's mercy !) 

 call in the new Ephemerides the Greek year the solar one, which is a 

 negligence. On the 7th February the first kindling spark a^*^ 

 of spring is falling ; on the 4th the second spark ; on the 21st the third, 

 after which the cold of winter is broken ; on the 26th is the cold day of 



